I fully agree with the part that differentiates the anxiety rodents feel from human anxiety.
Human anxiety as the article states is much deeper, more conscious, operating on multiple levels.

Humans - as other animals - have the usual instinctive survival anxiety to give us a first line defense protecting ourselves individually and collectively. But humans have a much more developed fear, anxiety other animals do not have, we fear most of all for our "self", for our deeper being which sense is completely missing from animals.

Animals do not sense themselves, their individual ego as humans do. This is probably the greatest evolutionary difference in between animals and humans. We are all born as very unique, individual beings with a very distinct, "dear" connection to our selves.
This is the reason we are even ready in certain cases to sacrifice our biological being, life in order to "protect" or "sanctify" the self.

Moreover while animals, their sense of their "being" has remained the same for millions of years human "self", our ego has been developing, intensifying significantly, exponentially through human evolution especially in modern times.
Our ego has reached its probable maximum potential by today thus our fear, anxiety for this "self" is intolerable.

It also not an accident marketing uses this fear consciously, our fear and insecurity is the greatest, most profitable business which is openly exploited by the insurance, banking, health and defense sectors just to mention a few.
We are ready to pay as much as possible to protect our "self".

At the same time this hyperactive self is causing harm, "self-destruction" in our global world acting as cancer in the integrated, interdependent world so our unconscious, instinctive fear for individual and collective human survival is also on an unprecedented high.
We are hammered on two fronts by our own over-inflated ego.

So what is the solution?

The solution is building a new human society based on "selfless", mutually complementing cooperation. That would solve both sides of our overgrown anxiety, fear.
In a system of true mutual guarantee where each human being worries, cares for another our concern is moved away from the "own self" lessening our constant anxiety, fear about ourselves.
Moreover in such an optimal, mutually complementing society we would find solving problems, securing long term survival much easier.
Thus our unconscious anxiety, fear for human individual or collective survival would also be "tranquilized" without using any drugs.

In my opinion anxiety is the result of misunderstood disappointments. Changes in brain are effects, no cause. Their are no differences anxiety but strength. Anxiety feels tje same for everyone. Scientist put a lot of effort in classify behavior, while a to strong feeling is the problem. It was an eyeopener for me to clarify the difference between danger and risk. Danger of the present and risk of the future. Danger with the emotion anxiety and risk with the emotion sadness. Never the other way around. In my opinion it has nothing to do with genes but the lack of understanding feelings of parents. I wrote of this new theory in a free ebook. On my site with the same extension as my email you find more details if you are interested. I have no commercial intentions at all. I'am just an experience expert with more then 20,000 happy readers. Happiness for everyone is my only goal.

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